Does the majority have the right to be the majority. If it does, how to do it. Approximately 300, 200 - majority and 100 - minority. The question is about a split. Unification is possible.

If the majority doesn't collude, the minority can win. It happens. This is not a faction. We came as a faction, but we are not a faction here. We [must] exercise our right in the election. We fought the delegate elections in order to win the convention. And that is what we must do.

When the discussion unfolded, everyone saw the political[i]mistake and quite rightly so. It was the most dangerous discussion. The masses picked up on it: so they too have disagreements.

We must be strong, firm. Those who waver will come to us.

Now Kronstadt2. The danger is that their slogans are not those of socialist revolutionaries, but of anarchists.

The All-Russian Congress of Producers is not a Marxist idea, but a petty-bourgeois one.

If you want to introduce opposition into the Central Committee for the purpose of decomposition, let me not allow it.

The "R[aboic] opposition" expresses the vacillations of the partyless masses.

"Democ[ratic] center[alism]" exists only in Moscow and unites only the intelligentsia. But it interferes with work.

Moscow is the best city in the sense that it has a mass of intellectuals, thesis writers, former dignitaries, etc.

I was accused: and you, you son of a bitch, for dissolving the discussion. And try to hold Tr[otsky] back. How many divisions to send against him.

The apparatuses are bad. Everyone hates the chiefs. But no one agrees to dissolve them. Politics is for the apparatus, not the apparatus....

Our politics. From the point of view of the interests of the vanguard to the rearguard, of the whole class to the peasantry.

Yesterday about trade unions, and today to renew the entire Communist Party. Where can we get commissars?

Trotsky and I will get together.

The apparatus is for politics, not politics for the apparatus.

Trotsky demands his resignation. I've had a lot of resignations in my pockets in 3 years. Some of them lay in my pocket and lay aside. But Trotsky is a man with a temperament and military training. He's in love with the apparatus, but in politics he's neither meh nor nada.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 24510, fol. 1-2 - autograph of I. Barakhov.

1Lenin's speech at the meeting of delegates to the X Congress of the RCP(b) - supporters of the "platform 10" was held during the X Congress of the RCP(b) (March 8-16, 1921) in the party discussion "On the role and tasks of trade unions".

The discussion began in November 1920 in the party organizations of Moscow, Petrograd, the Urals, Ukraine and Siberia. On January 12, 1921, the plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) allowed the pre-congress discussion and the election of delegates to the congress according to platforms. "Platform 10", signed by Lenin, Artem (F.A. Sergeev), M.I. Kalinin, I.V. Stalin, L.B. Kamenev, G.E. Zinoviev, G.I. Petrovsky, S.A. Lozovsky, J.E. Rudzutak and M.P. Tomsky, was published on January 14, 1921. The "buffer" platform of N.I.Bukharin, Y.Larin (M.A.Lurie), E.A.Preobrazhensky, L.P.Serebryakov, G.Y.Sokolnikov (Brilliant) and V.N.Yakovleva; theses of the "Democratic Centralism" group, the platform of the "Workers' Opposition" and others were also published. As a result of voting at the congress, 336 votes were cast in favor of the "platform 10", Trotsky-Bukharin - 50, "Working Opposition" - 10.

A brief record of Lenin's speech was made by Ivanov (I.N.Barakhov), a delegate to the congress from the Yakut party organization. He gave his record to the archives of the Lenin Institute at the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) on December 15, 1929.

2V.I.Lenin was referring to the mutiny in Kronstadt, which began on February 28, 1921. Its liquidation was carried out by units of the Red Army under the command of M.N.Tukhachevsky. 300 delegates of the X Congress of the RCP(b), who had military experience, participated in the storming of Kronstadt. On March 18, 1921 the mutiny was liquidated.

The mutiny of the garrison of the naval base Kronstadt and crews of some ships of the Baltic Fleet under anti-Bolshevik slogans was caused by the internal political and economic crisis in the country, dissatisfaction of the population with the policy of war communism.